Example sentences of "serve as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed that the PASOK movement could make a real contribution to European as well as Greek politics , but after serving as education minister in Papandreou 's second administration ( when he tried to reintroduce classical Greek into the school curriculum ) , he left to found his own ill-starred party , the Greek Radical Movement . |
| 2 | And 18 years later he was still there , serving as equerry to the Maharajah of Rewa . |
| 3 | After university posts in Glasgow and Chicago , he joined the German Department at Stirling in 1972 , serving as head of department from 1981 to 1990 . |
| 4 | He retired in 1911 but , having unrivalled knowledge of the Eastern Front and its terrain , was recalled in 1914 to assume command in the east , with Ludendorff serving as chief of staff . |
| 5 | For best results , keep Port Salut at the bottom of the refrigerator , wrapped separately , and remove an hour before serving as part of a cheeseboard . |
| 6 | During his lightning trip the prince will meet representatives of all British units serving as part of Operation Grapple , Army spokesmen in Croatia said . |
| 7 | During his one-day trip the prince will meet representatives of all British units serving as part of Operation Grapple , army spokesmen in Croatia said . |
| 8 | By the time I had received the alarm and gone out , his lordship and his guests had laid my father on his side , a cushion and a rug from the summerhouse serving as pillow and blanket . |
| 9 | While serving as deputy chairman of ICI he became ill and was advised to take life a little more quietly . |
| 10 | Bloch , who had spent 30 years in the foreign service , gained international notoriety in 1989 when he became the subject of an intensive FBI investigation into allegations that he has passed classified information to the Soviet Union whilst serving as deputy chief of the US embassy in Vienna in 1983-87 . |
| 11 | The roads were bad and hotels poor ; in a Kentmere caravanserai in 1820 according to the Lonsdale Magazine , there is a good description of a mixture of farmhouse and public house , serving as hotel : ‘ The floor was bespread with tubs , pans , chairs , tables , piggins , dishes , tins and the other equipage of a farmer 's kitchen . |
| 12 | to observe the 1769 transit of Venus in the Pacific , which Green , then serving as purser in the Aurora frigate , agreed to do for 200 guineas . |
| 13 | By 1701 he was serving as chairman of the influential elections committee , and was even talked of as a possible Speaker . |
| 14 | He was national vice-chairman in 1990–91 before serving as chairman the following year at a time of great change in the Association . |
| 15 | Hisashi Shinto , 80 , one of Japan 's most senior industrialists , was on Oct. 9 given a suspended prison sentence of two years for having accepted bribes in the Recruit shares-for-influence scandal whilst serving as chairman of the privatized Nippon Telephone and Telegraph ( NTT ) . |
| 16 | On his death , the mantle fell upon Lord ( Oliver ) Franks , who , on returning to Britain in 1952 after serving as ambassador in Washington , turned down the editorship of The Times , the director-generalship of the BBC and the eventual headship of the civil service . |
| 17 | While serving as ambassador at the court of St James Sancy 's brother sold the stone to James I. When James II fled to France he took refuge at St Germain and sold the stone to Louis XIV . |
| 18 | He was very active in the events of 1297–9 , serving as marshal of Edward I 's ill-fated army in Flanders ( 1297 ) and with Odo de Grandson and Aymer de Valence in the consequent peace negotiations with the French . |
| 19 | Kajiyama had caused widespread outrage in the USA in September 1990 when , while serving as Justice Minister , he gave an impromptu press conference in Tokyo and compared the influence of blacks in the USA with prostitutes [ see p. 37715 ] . |
| 20 | The main character ( played by Natasha Richardson ) is dragooned into serving as breeding stock for a childless couple in the evangelical-state hierarchy . |
| 21 | While the older families derived their wealth from trade , the newer ones drew it more from investment in property , after coming to prominence initially through service to the Crown , as controllers of customs or victuallers for armies , or by serving as town clerk . |
| 22 | He was a founder-member of the Russia Company in 1555 , and remained active in its affairs , serving as governor eight times between 1567 and 1587 . |
| 23 | Pat , who is always totally committed to every idea and action she enters , underlines the certainty of her words with a hand stabbing a cigarette into a saucer serving as ashtray . |
| 24 | In this , the auction house lends money to owners ( dealers or collectors ) with their art holdings serving as security . |
| 25 | While serving as agent in Canton for merchants in India and Singapore , and dealing in export and import commerce , he speculated in the opium trade which , although illegal , offered the greatest profits . |
| 26 | His latest film Peter 's Friends is due out this week with Branagh serving as producer , director and star . |
| 27 | Kucan 's victory in the presidential election reflected the great personal popularity he had earned while serving as president of the Slovene League of Communists in 1986-89 for his defence of Slovenia 's political reform process in the face of fierce opposition by the hardline leadership in Serbia . |
| 28 | After the coup which established Edward III on the throne in 1330 he once again became an active royal agent , serving as envoy to France in 1331 and fighting in the Scottish campaigns of the mid-1330s . |
| 29 | In 1872 , on a visit to Egypt , she met Lieutenant Soøren Adolph Arendrup , a thirty-eight-year-old widower and Danish officer , who was serving as artillery adviser to the Egyptian army . |
| 30 | Serving as director of the Survey from May 1896 to November 1897 , he retired in 1904 , partly because of ill health ; he suffered from sprue , and returned to England . |